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Shelvy vs Shelfy - What's the difference?

shelvy | shelfy |

As adjectives the difference between shelvy and shelfy

is that shelvy is having shelves while shelfy is (obsolete) abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.

shelvy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having shelves.

    • shelfy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
    • A shelfy coast. — Dryden.
  • (obsolete) Full of strata of rock.
    • The tillable fields are in some places so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. — Carew.

    Synonyms

    * shelvy (Webster 1913)